JANET YELLEN

The economy is a top concern for many Americans as they feel the brunt of record-high inflation and supply chain snarls under President Biden.

Treasury Secretary Yellen defended the administration's economic achievements and said that she hopes to see inflation closer to 2% by the end of 2022.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told a gathering of America’s mayors the Biden administration’s coronavirus relief bill is “like a vaccine” preventing catastrophic economic damage.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting of world leaders, business executives and other heavyweights to go virtual for the second year in a row.

The federal government last month posted its smallest monthly budget deficit in two years.

The coins are the first in the U.S. Mint's American Women Quarters Program.

The civil rights activist and writer is the first in a series of US women honoured on the US quarter.

The United States Mint says it has begun shipping quarters featuring the image of poet Maya Angelou.

The nation’s top financial regulators told Congress Friday that threats to financial stability remain elevated even though the country has recovered from the worst economic shocks stemming from the COVID pandemic.

President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill raising the nation's borrowing limit by $2.5 trillion.

President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill raising the nation's borrowing limit by $2.5 trillion.

President Joe Biden has signed a bill raising the nation’s borrowing limit by $2.5 trillion, avoiding a potentially catastrophic default and resolving the turbulent issue until after the 2022 midterm elections.

Congress has approved a $2.5 trillion debt limit hike, sending legislation to avert a catastrophic default to President Joe Biden for his signature.

Congressional Democrats plan to raise the debt ceiling on Tuesday, just before the deadline that could mark the first U.S. default.

The Treasury Department will release $8.7 billion to help increase lending to small and minority-owned businesses and to people living in poorer communities with limited access to banking.

The U.S. budget deficit totaled $356.4 billion in the first two months of the budget year, down 17% from the same period a year ago as a sharp jump in government revenues offset a smaller increase in spending.

The Senate is moving ahead with a fast-track plan for raising the debt limit.

Congressional leaders have reached a deal to lift the nation's debt limit.

House lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday that would allow the Senate to raise the debt limit with a majority rather than 60 votes.

Treasury wants to enact a rule that would crack down on criminals that use shell companies to hide illegal funds behind opaque corporate structures.

The government will keep running through Feb. 18, buying Democrats time to address the debt ceiling and the Build Back Better Act.

The Bipartisan Policy Center updated its "X date" projections to fall between December 21 and January 28, 2022.

The Biden administration will not designate any country as a currency manipulator, but it did name China, Vietnam and Taiwan among the nations that have failed to live up to global agreements not to use their currencies to gain unfair trade advantages.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell's retirement of the term "transitory" could have a bleak effect on risk assets, according to Cole Smead of Smead Capital Management.

Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the Federal Reserve can’t be sure that inflation will fade in the second half of next year, as many economists expect, a fresh sign of the Fed’s growing concern about rising prices.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testify Tuesday before the Senate banking committee.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell believes that the omicron variant of Covid-19 and a recent rise in coronavirus cases pose a threat to the U.S. economy.

Trying to find a historical parallel to the current run – and, thus, perhaps a way out – isn't easy.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is urging Congress to raise or suspend the debt limit by Dec. 15 or the U.S. risks defaulting on its bills.

The treasury secretary urged Congress to increase or suspend the debt limit "as soon as possible."

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress Tuesday that she believed she would run out of maneuvering room to avoid the nation’s first-ever default soon after Dec. 15.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told lawmakers that she now estimates that the U.S. will reach its debt limit on Dec. 15.

President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping are agreeing they need to tread carefully as their nations find themselves in an increasingly fraught competition.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi surprised advocates, and even many of her Democratic colleagues, when she revived a long-sought paid family and medical leave plan and said it would be part of a massive social and environmental spending bill in the House.

On this "Face the Nation" broadcast, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Governor Jared Polis sat down with Margaret Brennan.

The following is the full transcript of an interview with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen airing Sunday, November 14, 2021, on "Face the Nation."

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and more appear on Sunday's "Face the Nation"

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says she expects inflation pressures to ease in the latter half of next year. Yellen spoke to NPR from Scotland, where she's attending climate meetings.

The U.S. Treasury Department plans to start scaling back the size of some of its government debt auctions, a sign that the government’s huge pandemic-driven borrowing needs are starting to ease.

Governments and big investors have announced fresh plans to pour trillions of dollars into curbing global warming.

President Joe Biden didn't say if he planned to renominate current chair, Jerome Powell.

The Treasury Department says it plans to borrow $1.02 trillion during the current quarter.

In a long-awaited report, the President's Working Group on Financial Markets found, when regulated, stablecoins could transform payments.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she has discussed with President Joe Biden how he should proceed on naming a Federal Reserve chairman

Mitch McConnell is digging in against helping Democrats lift the debt limit, and Yellen says she doesn't want to risk a devastating default.

Leaders of the Group of 20 countries have expressed support for a deal that makes sweeping changes in how big global companies are taxed.

This historic deal will increase incentives to invest in workers and workplaces and ensure that large and profitable corporations do not escape taxation.

Less than a month after lawmakers passed a small increase to the debt limit, the country again faces a deadline.

Annual inflation rose at its fastest pace in more than 30 years during September despite a decline in personal income.

"While there isn't mark-to-market billionaires' tax, I think it's been agreed that individuals earning high incomes" will pay more, Yellen told CNBC on Friday.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke to CNBC's Sara Eisen on "Worldwide Exchange" on Friday during her trip to Europe to promote the administration's economic agenda. This is breaking news. Please check back here for updates.

Yellen said President Biden's $1.75 trillion social policy and climate change package will help drive prices down.

The two senators aren’t stifling their party’s agenda so much as saving it from overreach.

With the debt ceiling deadline set for early December, some prominent politicians are drafting ideas to reform or end the borrowing limit.

The Treasury Department has hired a former JPMorgan Chase executive to head a new government program aimed at combatting racial inequality issues in banking and other financial-services industries.

The U.S. budget deficit totaled $2.77 trillion for 2021, the second highest on record but an improvement from the all-time high of $3.13 trillion in 2020.

U.S. financial regulators are acknowledging climate change to be a serious threat to the stability of the nation’s financial system.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council issued a report on the risks a changing climate poses to the U.S. financial system, in response to Biden's order.

The recent increase in the debt ceiling provides only a "short reprieve," said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

Democrats under pressure from the GOP and the banking industry have agreed to raise the cap to $10,000 on a proposal that all bank transactions of more than $600 be reported to the IRS.

The Treasury Department says that the economic and financial sanctions the United States has employed over the past two decades to battle global terrorism, nuclear proliferation, drug cartels and other threats need to adapt to a rapidly changing financial world.

The passage of the short-term debt ceiling increase ensures that, for now, the U.S. will continue to meet its obligations.

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill raising the nation’s debt limit until early December, delaying the prospect of an unprecedented federal default that would cause economic disaster.

The International Monetary Fund is warning of rising threats to a global recovery posed by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and an outbreak of inflation.

The embattled head of the International Monetary Fund is pledging renewed efforts to bolster data integrity while focusing on the main job of helping countries recover from a devastating global pandemic.

The House approved an extension of the U.S. debt ceiling through early December.

The House approved an extension of the U.S. debt ceiling through early December.

Members of the House have approved a short-term hike to the nation’s debt limit.

The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill to raise the U.S. debt limit, the final hurdle to averting a first-ever default.

The bill heads off fiscal calamity and puts an end — for now — to tense negotiations over the federal debt limit.

Janet Yellen said it won't happen in the next month or two, but urged consumers not to panic ahead of the holiday shopping season.

The International Monetary Fund has expressed “full confidence” in its managing director.

During the recent standoff over the nation's debt limit, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell showed just how far he'll go to stop President Joe Biden’s agenda.

Complex global talks have forged a deal on sweeping changes in how multinational companies are taxed.

The agreement would set a 15% minimum tax rate for companies around the world, but it would need to be passed by a closely dvided Congress.

The measure now goes to the House, which is slated to vote on it next week.

More than 130 countries have agreed on a tentative deal that would make sweeping changes to how big, multinational companies are taxed in order to deter them from stashing their profits in offshore tax havens where they pay little or no tax.

The Senate on Thursday approved a bill to help the U.S. avoid a default on its debt in the next few weeks.

Global stock markets have risen as investors wait for U.S. jobs data that might influence a Federal Reserve decision on when to roll back stimulus.

Bitcoin just made a major comeback, but it's not the only game in town anymore. Bill Baruch of Blue Line Capital shares which cryptocurrencies he's watching.

The Senate is trying again to raise the debt limit, holding a procedural vote Wednesday on legislation the House has already passed.

It would be the token of all tokens: a $1 trillion coin, minted by the U.S. government, then cashed in to flood the treasury with cash and solve a political impasse over suspending the debt limit.

Authorities say the pipeline that leaked tens of thousands of gallons oil into the water off Southern California was split open and apparently dragged along the ocean floor. (Oct. 5)

President Joe Biden is urging Republican senators to “get out of the way” and let Democrats suspend the nation’s debt limit.

Amid a national debate over the use of pandemic relief funds, Alabama lawmakers swiftly approved a plan to tap $400 million to help build two super-size prisons.

Asian markets have tumbled on the tail of Wall Street's worst monthly loss since the beginning of the pandemic.

With only hours to spare, President Joe Biden signed legislation to avoid a partial federal shutdown and keep the government funded through Dec. 3.

Republicans are using money from the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package for projects on conservatives' wish lists.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday that current high levels of inflation are likely to fade next year and won’t prevent the Fed from pushing toward its goal of full employment.

President Joe Biden appears unable to strike swift agreement with two wavering Democratic senators over his big $3.5 trillion government overhaul.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says that President Joe Biden’s spending proposals represent will address long-overdue U.S. infrastructure needs and prepare the country to meet future challenges.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is sounding an urgent call for Congress to raise the U.S. government’s borrowing limit, a day after Senate Republicans blocked consideration of a bill that would have done so.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is preparing to tell Congress that the current spike in U.S. inflation has proven to be larger and more long-lasting than expected.

A live televised interview with Vice President Kamala Harris was delayed on Friday after two hosts of the “The View” learned they tested positive for COVID-19 moments before she was to join them on the set.

Top congressional Democrats say they and the White House have agreed to a framework of tax options to pay for their emerging $3.5 trillion social and environment bill.

The House has approved legislation to fund the government, suspend its borrowing limit and provide federal disaster and refugee aid.

Democratic congressional leaders backed by the White House have announced they will push ahead with a vote to fund the government and suspend the debt limit.

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit ‘The View’ studio on Friday for her sixth appearance on the daytime chat show — but her first as vice president.

The Biden administration has been enlisting one emissary after another to convince Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to help raise the federal debt limit.